Jon Arnt Jacobsen has been Executive Vice President, Manufacturing & Marketing since September 1, 2004. He came from the position of Senior Vice President for group finance in Statoil, which he had held since 1998. He previously held the position of General Manager and head of the Singapore branch at Den norske Bank ASA (DnBNor). From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Jacobsen headed the industrial section of DnBNor’s corporate customer division, having previously held a number of different positions in DnBNor’s banking organization for the oil and gas industry over a seven-year period. He worked from 1983 to 1985 as a downstream market analyst for Esso Norge. Mr. Jacobsen was a member of the board of Mesta AS from 2002 to 2004. He has a business degree from the Norwegian School of Management and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. |